This morning I heard a news photographer describe his approach to
capturing images.
He said that if he saw a Palestinian soldier in the act of sharing candy
with a child he would not take the picture. He went on to say that even
if he did take the picture he would make sure it would never be published.
To me this view no longer upholds the libertarian ideals of journalism.
It is an activism whose purpose is to perpetuate a view of an inhuman
enemy incapable of being other than vermin to be expunged or spurned
even when in view.
Forgetting can not be easy. Forgiving seems impossible.
I hope never to know this.
I hope never to invoke such a testament.
-- in Kill Bill vol. 1 the subsumation of race by culture is evident in
the evokation of Old Testament vengance: a sword is forged to vanquish
the strength of cultural influence as both respect and revulsion for
what this influence represents: the child of the bride does not die but
is, instead, the progeny of a foreign (or confluence) of interests and
culture --
